AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon — Here's a bit of cheery news from the Web 2.0 Summit: AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph De La Vega just told interviewer Michael Arrington that the company is working with Apple to let the iPhone serve as a tethered wireless modem for laptops soon.

AT&T-sanctioned 3G tethering on the way for iPhone — In an interview with Michael Arrington at the Web 2.0 Summit, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega let it be known that an official, AT&T sanctioned method of using the iPhone as a 3G modem for a laptop is on the way “soon”.

Yahoo's Jerry Yang runs into a wall — The reviews of Jerry Yang's performance at the Web 2.0 Summit have not been glowing. The Yahoo CEO's interview with Web 2.0 Summit co-host John Battelle this week has been described as a train wreck, self-delusional, and as making a mockery of the vaunted company he helped create.

Yahoo: Poor, Alone and Sad — Six months ago Jerry Yang took the stage at the D Conference to talk about the state of his business. He painted a picture of a Yahoo that was spinning in circles with no clear future. — Fast forward six months and nothing has changed.

LiveBlogging Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg At Web 2.0 — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon, at about 2 pm. — Like Jerry Yang yesterday, Zuckerberg has a lot to talk about regarding the state of Facebook, and its future.

Once Thought Safe, WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked — Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks. — The attack, described as the first practical attack on WPA …

John Doerr's Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy — At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Wednesday, billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr was interviewed by John Heilemann, a contributing editor at New York magazine who came in from Chicago, fresh off the Obama campaign trail.

Feature films coming to YouTube — YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company. — For months, Google, YouTube's parent company …

AT&T Fuze hitting shelves November 11th for $299 — Looks like the Fuze may be hitting sooner than initially anticipated. An anonymous tipster just dropped some official AT&T documents on us that show the Fuze dropping on November 11th. Start saving your dough now as the Fuze …

Apple Activates Podcast Downloads in 2.2 Firmware — German blog Schimanke.com publishes new screenshots from the iPhone 2.2 firmware that reveal that Apple has activated iTunes and App Store features that will make their debut in the next iPhone update. Prior to this past week, these new features had not been fully enabled.

Microsoft ditches old Hotmail design; users gripe — Yahoo and Google aren't the only ones whose Web site changes incur the wrath of users who'd rather things stay the way they were. — Microsoft is discontinuing an option to use Hotmail's older “classic” interface, merging it with a newer …

Windows 7 Server gets its day — Microsoft Vice President Bill Laing talks about the server version of Windows 7, dwarfed by servers from Hewlett-Packard and IBM. — (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET Networks) — LOS ANGELES—After two weeks of focus on the desktop version of Windows 7, it's server counterpart finally got a day in the sun.

Google's favorite penny stock: Nexicon — Google is hoping to perfect YouTube's video identification system with the help of a company that hasn't filed financials with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has a convoluted history and is run by a self-proclaimed “natural born content pirate.”

Obama names tech execs to transition team — President-elect Barack Obama has named tech executives from Google.org and InterActiveCorp to his transition team, according to reports. — Google.org's Sonal Shah and Julius Genchowski, a former IAC executive who also served as chief counsel …

Intel's Otellini At The Web 2.0 Summit — Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini is being interviewed on stage this morning by John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. He's apparently going to start with some demos. — Here are some tidbits from his presentation:

Netbooks Come Into Their Own — Somewhere between the laptop and the smart phone, the computer industry has long believed there could be a small, low-cost device that would please consumers and sell well. — The device would be more versatile than, say, an iPhone, but much cheaper and more portable than, say, a ThinkPad.